Metaphor

"When he looked out the window he now saw just the faintest splice of light, like a seam coming undone at the horizon..."

This beautiful metaphor is in a book I am reading, so I thought I would find the perfect photograph to illustrate it. Since our thoughts are with those devastated by yesterday's earthquake in Japan, I chose the image above of dawn breaking over Tokyo (taken by Rob Sheridan on August 8, 2009).